Is AI going to change the way sports are consumed?

Summary

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered — "Is AI going to change the way sports are consumed?"

Podcast: Dan Bernstein Unfiltered (312 Sports)
Air Date: February 16, 2026
Host: Dan Bernstein
Co-Host: (Unspecified, but appears to be longtime producer Matt Abbatacola)
Theme: The potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on sports consumption, with a focus on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s recent comments about hyper-personalized broadcasts.

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's comments about the future of AI-driven sports consumption, delivered during his annual state-of-the-league press conference at All-Star Weekend. Dan, joined by his producer/co-host, wrestles with the coming AI revolution, the fate of sports broadcasting, the changing "fan experience," and the broader implications for sports as a shared cultural event.

Tone: Thoughtful, candid, occasionally anxious or sardonic, with comedic interludes and Chicago sports flavor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Adam Silver’s Comments: A Catalyst for Debate

• Context: Adam Silver, regarded by Dan as the smartest and most forward-thinking of major American sports commissioners, discussed AI’s transformative potential in sports during his press conference.
• Key Quote (Silver, 12:36):

  "You’ll be able to hear the game in any dialect, any language... almost hyper-personalize our telecasts… [Fans can] experience the game in any way they want... If people want to shop during a game, be on social media… I think it’s a really exciting moment and transformation…"

2. Hyper-Personalization: What Does It Mean for the Fan Experience?

• Fan Experience vs. Broadcast:

  • Dan highlights the shift from "broadcast" (one feed for all) to individualized "fan experiences."
  • Bernstein:

    “The word broadcast as opposed to webcast, podcast, narrowcast. Broadcast is for everyone. He isn't talking about a broadcast... fundamentally changing the mechanism by which we consume sports.” (19:25)

• Potential Upsides Noted by Silver:

  • Accessibility for fans worldwide via customizable language/accent, commentary style (comedic/analytic/beginner-friendly).
  • "Makes the game... that much more accessible for fans on a global basis." (Silver, 14:20)

• Bernstein’s Concerns:

  • AI replacing beloved human broadcasters:

    “If you’re really saying that you’re going to provide any dialect... Do you think it’s going to be human beings standing by to do that?... You’re going to have artificial intelligence as those ‘broadcasters,’ which eventually will put all broadcasters out of business...” (15:15)

  • The social, shared experience may be lost:

    “The slippery slope is... why not just have your own outcome? Why not... watch your team win or lose as you want?” (24:25)

  • Fear of job loss and dehumanization in broadcasting.

3. Co-Host Counterpoints & Skepticism

• Skeptical that AI Personalization Will Grow the Audience:

  "That’s not going to make the difference in your audience. It’s not…It caters and panders to the stupid. You want a broadcast that teaches you what a foul is? They're not watching basketball.” (18:06)

• NFL vs. NBA Fanbases:

  • Co-host argues this will not be adopted in the NFL, whose popularity doesn't require such intervention (29:26).
  • “People watch the NFL because they love the game itself and don't need to do those fringe changes... The NBA does right now. Everything is competing and chasing after the NFL in this country.”

• The Irreplaceable Human Element:

  • Romanticizes voices like Vin Scully, Kevin Harlan, and Greg Olsen, doubting AI could ever substitute their distinct contributions:

    “The human aspect of sports…that’s what makes sports special... There’s no way you could replace that human element..." (32:04)

4. Societal & Technological Critique

• Cultural Fragmentation & Monoculture:

  • Dan laments the fading of “monoculture”—shared mass experiences—citing sports as one of the few remaining bastions. Hyper-personalization could undercut even those shared moments (21:30–24:25).

• AI as Past Tech Hype:

  • Bernstein likens the “AI in everything” trend to the ‘80s "digital" craze, noting much is hype and some things will not last (8:00–10:26).

• AI and Economics:

  • Both hosts agree that hype cycles (like current AI investment) precede failures and corrections; ultimately, real value emerges elsewhere.
  • “We’re still in the exciting, frothy times of this new technology.” (8:38)

5. Emotional Responses: Anxiety, Humor, and Resignation

• Dan: Initial skepticism, then mounting fear about losing communal sports rituals and trusted voices; sees the change as inevitable, if regrettable:

  • “My anger turned into fear because… fear, fear of losing the shared experience.” (27:40–28:06)

• Co-host: Responds with bemused irritation, skepticism; personal detachment from NBA makes the issue “stupid, not scary.” (27:40–28:14)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Adam Silver’s AI Vision (12:36 – 14:51)

"...you’ll be able to hear the game in any dialect, any language... a hardcore X’s and O’s commentary, maybe one that’s more comedic, or for a novice... the most significant change... in how sports are presented... Hyper personalization.”

On AI Replacing Broadcasters (15:15)

Dan Bernstein:

“You’re going to have artificial intelligence as those quote unquote broadcasters which eventually will put all broadcasters out of business…”

On the Value of Human Voices (25:31)

Co-host:

“If I could make every game that I watch sound like Vin Scully... that’s the only way I would participate in this. Otherwise, I just think it sounds stupid.”

On Monoculture and Shared Experiences (24:25)

Dan Bernstein:

“We’re still going to have to have at some point an agreed upon baseline for the group experience... The key word here is sports as a shared experience.”

Host’s Fears for the Future (27:40–28:06)

Dan Bernstein:

"Like your first emotion, if I had to distill, you’re just mad about it... I was like that too. And then I started to get more scared. My anger turned into fear because... fear of losing the shared experience."

Emphatic Skepticism about AI Replacing Humanity (32:04)

Co-host:

“The human aspect of sports, whether it’s participation or the coverage, that’s what makes sports special, is the human element. And you’re not going to be able to replace that with AI.”

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 03:39 – 12:36 — Setting up Adam Silver’s AI comments; context and Bernstein’s reverence for Silver’s intellect.
• 12:36 – 14:51 — Adam Silver’s statement on AI, hyper-personalization, and the future of sports viewing.
• 15:14 – 19:25 — Immediate reactions: fear of AI replacing human broadcasters and the loss of trusted voices.
• 19:25 – 24:25 — Discussion shifts to the idea of shared experiences, group viewing, and sports as monoculture.
• 24:25 – 27:40 — Slippery slope: AI lets you re-write outcomes, individualizes viewing; can communal rituals survive?
• 27:40 – 30:02 — Contrasting emotional responses to AI (anger vs. fear); NFL vs. NBA resistance to tech changes.
• 32:04 – 33:55 — Romanticizing human broadcasters; skepticism that AI announcers could ever measure up.
• Full episode — Intermittent humor, anecdotes, and topical asides (e.g., Mardi Gras, Olympic updates).

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Conclusion

Dan Bernstein and his co-host deliver a spirited, sometimes anxious, sometimes dryly humorous debate over the coming wave of AI in sports viewing. Galvanized by Adam Silver’s high-profile remarks, they explore the tension between technological change and treasured sports rituals: the communal experience, the joy of familiar voices, and the risk that "innovations" may erode more than they build.

Their consensus? AI is coming, ready or not. Whether it will bring true fan empowerment, or merely fragment and automate away what makes sports special, remains to be seen.

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Further Listening (For Fans of This Discussion)

• [12:36 – 14:51] – Adam Silver’s full AI remarks
• [24:25 – 27:25] – Discussion on group experiences and “hyper-personalization”
• [32:04 – 33:24] – Impassioned defense of human broadcasters

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Episode date: February 16, 2026

Transcript

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[Dan Bernstein]

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports is brought to you in partnership with my bookie. And it was it's been a fascinating sports weekend, but something absolutely just wigged me out and it's been in the back of my mind ever since I heard it on Saturday. And then I've kind of been thinking through it and I, you know, watched some golf and watched some Olympics and some stuff and things and I can't, I can't shake this case of the other willies that I got from, from what Adam Silver said in his Saturday press conference. I'll explain why. Had nothing to do with with the the basketball of which I actively watched. Very, very little. It was kind of on and then it was the stars and the stripes and the world and the teams, and it was things. And then I just was not particularly interested. And I liked being outside all weekend. I was walking around and it was like. It was like Paris in the spring. My God. Walking down Roscoe yesterday, people are sitting there having lunch on the corner and drinking wine, and everybody's eating outside. And you don't have to give this city much in the way of a little bit of weather. Hope to get everybody behaving spectacularly. It was quite.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

It was great. We went for a long walk yesterday with the dogs, and everybody in the neighborhood was out. I mean, it was amazing doing something. Some people were just sitting in their driveways.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know. I decided to go walking. I had to go to cvs and I had to go to Mariana. I was like, you know what? I'm going to go walk for two hours. And I did. I made a huge loop. I went all the way down into Irving park and Damon, up Damon to Roscoe, down Roscoe. The whole. Made my. Basically the whole midday out of it, and people were acting like it was July. It was fabulous. But that's.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That's what it needs, man. That's what we need.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know, but I. But I was still. I'm still a little troubled by Adam Silver's press conference. Now the attention on Saturday has been paid to his. His tanking solutions, or at least him betraying an awareness of the tampering issue, just how bad it could get. Not tampering, tanking issue, but how bad it could get if teams start to game whatever new system they have and understanding the unintended consequences of the way the draft still works. And I do think that there's going to have to be some radical rethinking to how talent is distributed and what constitutes good teams and bad teams, and whether or not there are certain metrics they're simply going to have to look to beyond the actual record of the teams. That would be something that I would like to investigate to determine the quality of a team that cannot be hidden by. By one loss record. Because at the moment, there's a lot of things that the blunt tool of one loss can disguise as far as how good a team is or how close a team is to winning a championship. And I think maybe the team that's furthest away from winning the championship should have the highest draft pick. And it may save people from some bad executive management, but there's got to be a way to do this where people aren't gaming it. But what got me were his Comments about artificial intelligence, and I'm going to play them for you, part of them at least. But what underpins my strong feelings about this, it's twofold. On one hand you say, well, why do you care what Adam Silver says? I do care what Adam Silver says because he is, by a mile, not only the smartest of our current commissioners in the four major sports, he is the most in control of his actual sport. He is the most currently respected by owners and players. And he's the only one of the four who will say what his job is as commissioner, that he will say that he will actually something as quaint, something as old fashioned and quaint as the idea of the best interests of the game, the best interest of the sport at the highest professional level globally. He still thinks that way. And he has been ahead of many, many, many trends. He was writing op EDS even, I think, before he was even commissioner, when he was still number two to David Stern. He was writing op EDS in the New York Times about legalized gambling and about how they had to get out in front of it and there were steps that they had to take to understand this is where the world is going. And I think he's really smart. I think he is by far the best at his job. So I tend to weigh his comments and his thoughts with a lot more respect than I do his counterparts. I think Roger Goodell is riding the tiger, as it were. I don't know that he is. There may be a better metaphor for the NFL, like he's, can you steer a planetoid? Can you just try to keep it from bouncing off of other planets? Whatever Roger Goodell is doing is something different than what others are doing. Rob Manfred, I have very little respect for. I don't even think he likes baseball. I don't know enough about Gary Bettman other than he, he's been a decent lawyer. But there are enough hockey people who don't like him that I can outsource some of the feelings to people smarter and who than I, and who care more about the global state of hockey and the state of professional hockey than I do. But it's meaningful. When Adam Silver talks, you can learn stuff from him. And let me also say this before we get to what he said. I think artificial intelligence is probably something that will change our lives. I do, but we don't know how yet. We're still, the wave hasn't even crested yet. We're still upside down, sort of spinning in the wave as it hits the beach. When it, when the wave recedes and we see what's left is when we'll really know where the big changes in our lives are going to occur because of AI. Because at the moment it's, it's still, if you want to talk from an economics perspective, it's still probably a little bubbly. But as far as the actual usage perspective, every major technological change, it'll sweep through. Everybody will think every, every toaster oven, every watch, every car, everything has to have this technology. And then eventually the stuff, it doesn't need to be on, it won't be on anymore, and it'll be in the important places and it'll take a step back before it takes a step forward. That tends to happen. But we're still in the exciting, frothy times, the heady times of this new technology. And that's why we've got businesses and governments and people so invested in it. It's already at the retail level we saw with the super bowl commercials, just like, it was like crypto, crypto, crypto. And then it's AI, AI, AI with everything. And it's gotta be in everything you own and you need AI pillows and AI slipp and AI mattresses and AI children and AI pencils. And it reminds me when we were kids in the early 80s of the word digital. This is better. Why? It's digital and everything. We had to be digital. And we weren't sure why. We didn't know if it made it better or not. It was like, well, that's the old fashioned one, that's not the digital one. Well, okay, so I mean, when the first digital watches came out, they had blinking numbers instead of moving hands.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, you better get it, better get.

[Dan Bernstein]

On the digital tray because everything's gonna be digital and then everything. And we didn't need every single thing in our lives to be digital. We had to figure it out. And we'll figure it out. But I do think that AI is going to probably ultimately be wrangled for good rather than evil. We can hope. And maybe that's just me and my optimism showing.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

So that's your optimism, because I think AI is going to lead to the destruction of mankind. But outside of that, outside of that, everything's good.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm sure they said the same thing about the Wheel.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I guarantee you say the same thing about digital or the wheel or fire.

[Dan Bernstein]

I guarantee you when the Wheel showed up, people thought, well, that's it for society. Sure. Now, now you're going to be rolling things all over the place and next thing you know, you're going to be rolling your guns and your tanks and blowing everything up. And just one thing, we just go over, we hit with a club and we kill it. Now you're gonna, you're rolling on over there to do it.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah. Now you're gonna have AI tanks that just go places they want to go and blow things up. So that's where we're headed.

[Dan Bernstein]

I, I get it and I understand, but I'm not a Luddite. I, I have no problem with the idea of technology. I just, I'm also pretty sensitive to when, when everybody's excited about something and VC money is over invested in it. And you can tell by the super bowl commercials that there, there's, there's gonna be a, an ebb tide before we, we get it all figured out. I just think that's obvious. And no, I'm not, There's. No, I'm not, I'm not trying to advise a specific trade of any kind. So please don't go there. I'm not smart enough to do that. So here's Adam Silver. What do you say? We got about two and a half minutes here.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Like 2:15.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, two from Saturday. This was his big state of the league press conference. I think one of the smartest people in sports is always worth a listen. But this, this wigged me out. I have no wig. I had a wig and then I was wigged out and my wig was gone. And this has just kind of been sticking with me. So let's listen to what he said and tell me if you, if you share some of these reservations.

[Adam Silver]

Many of you had an opportunity to attend our technology summit on Friday where we had several different panels talking about how technology has, is impacting sports predictions on how it will change the coverage of sports and the playing and the analytics around sports in the future to the 26th time we've done that. And not surprisingly, so much of the discussion was around artificial intelligence. And as I look at the world and the predictions, and we're seeing much of it already on how AI is changing everything about our personal lives, you know, our business lives. I mean, for me, there's no doubt that AI will have the same impact on sports. And one area in particular that I think it's worth addressing is impact on the, on the fan experience. And one of the things that we're beginning to see already is how we're going to be able to, you know, more than personalize, almost hyper personalize our telecasts and allowing people to experience the game in any way they want. And many of you have probably experimented with this already. But in essence you'll be able to hear the game in any dialect, any language. You'll be able to hear, you know, a hardcore X's and O's commentary, maybe one that's more comedic, if that's what you're interested, or somebody for a novice explaining, you know, each foul and the rules as it goes along. And so to me we're about to witness probably the most significant change certainly in my lifetime in how sports are presented and beyond that in the hyper personalization. If people want to shop during a game, if they want to, you know, be on social media and having an ongoing discussion about some aspect of the game, I think it's a, it's a really exciting moment and transformation and we've enjoyed working with our longtime partner Disney, which is ABC and ESPN on this. Of course, NBC and Peacock are now back in the fold and Amazon prime, they're all experimenting, doing incredible things. And I think it's going to make the game that, that's that much more accessible for fans on a global basis. So.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right. Okay. All right. That's Adam Silver at his NBA State of the League annual All Star Game press conference. There is a lot in there and I first got a little worried when I started hearing about you'll be able to hear the game in any dialect, any language, any kind of commentary, even.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

His native tongue of alien.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I can tell you what that will not involve and that's human beings announcing it, that if you're really saying that you're going to provide any dialect. Okay, I want to hear this in a West Texas drawl or I want to hear this in, in a specific South Korean accent. Do you think it's going to be human beings standing by jumping on the mic to do that for these micro audiences?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

No, no, that's the whole point of it.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's exactly, yeah, exactly. That you're going to have non human beings, you're going to have artificial intelligence as those quote unquote broadcasters which eventually will put all broadcasters out of business when they realize that they're not needed or they were. Their zero cost AI equivalents enough will then be employed. I know who I want to hear call games. I want to tune in and hear that it's Ian Eagle, that it's Jason Benetti, that it's Adam Amin, all these multi sport people who do fabulous work regardless of the sport. You know, we know the voices that we like and the voices that we trust. And I want to hear Those people that I trust, not a particular accent or not a particularly. Although if they did a Jason Benetti only does Monty Python references something like that, I'd consider it. But why not just have your own outcomes at this point if it's hyper personalized and we can, as he said, experience the game in any way they want. I would like the Bears to win by 20. So I'd like that version, okay? I want to get the version where. I want to get the version where the Bulls win every game. It exciting at the end and at the end of every game Josh Giddey hits a half court shot to win.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, let me ask you what, what wigged you out about it? Because you said it before we played it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Terrifying. Terrifying.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

What's terrifying to you?

[Dan Bernstein]

It's all terrifying to me.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That what part of it?

[Dan Bernstein]

The first of all, the concept of the number of jobs that will be lost and the very idea that. That human broadcasters will be an annoyance will be a nuisance and be completely unnecessary.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

See, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't. That's not what I heard though. I didn't hear that human broadcasters will be.

[Dan Bernstein]

Of course you don't. Of course you don't. Because they don't want you to hear that.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

No, because I just know. Here's what bothered me about it and the whole thing. So I listened to it. You know, we talked this morning and I listened to it and I was annoyed because what's the point of this? The point of doing this is to get a greater audience to come and watch your game.

[Dan Bernstein]

You're beating me to my next point.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay, I'm sorry.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, go ahead.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That's not going to do it. That's not going to make the difference in your audience. Okay. It's just not. And I'm not a good person to speak on this because I am not a die hard NBA fan. I love the Chicago Bears more than anything. I am a super, super Bears fan. I am also a super NFL fan. I will watch any NFL teams play a football game. I will never ever, ever watch two NBA teams play that I don't care about.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, well let's.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

And I will not hang on. And I will not watch the Bulls until they're good. So I'm not a good NBA person to talk about this. But doing this is not going to grow your audience. It's not. And I was annoyed by it because to me it caters and panders to the stupid. You want a broadcast that teaches you what a foul is. They're not watching basketball. They're never going to watch basketball. If they don't know the basic rules of the game, they're not going to watch it. No one's going to sit down and say, well, now that I have a personalization to the broadcast, that I can have them teach me the game as I watch. That's not going to happen. No, I want more of a comedic approach to it. Again, that's not going to happen. You know what? I need a few laughs. Let's turn on the NBA game with a comedian AI doing the game for me. All right. If the point is to grow the audience, this is not going to do it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Couple of things here. Couple of things here. First of all, it's really important that he said the fan experience. And he said telecast. He didn't say broadcast. The word broadcast as opposed to webcast, podcast, narrowcast. Broadcast is for everyone. He isn't talking about a broadcast. He's completely talking about fundamentally changing the mechanism by which we consume sports. And that is why he referred to it more largely as the fan experience. I would also say this. Forget just basketball for now, because he's better at this than his compatriots usually when it comes. Look what they've done with their television deals. Look what they've done with the equitable distribution of money. And the NBA is not without its problems. Don't get me wrong. There's always going to be growing pains and no league is perfect. But when you. When you look at a league that's been on the vanguard globally of how to bring its product to people, the NBA has done a better job than others at doing that. So I would think whatever your sport is, consider that other sports will. If the NBA is right about this, and if the NBA is. Is successful in pioneering some of this, all the other sports will obviously follow. It's just a matter of time and who makes certain mistakes first and who is out there pushing things first. They seem certainly willing to do that because that's where the big dollars are going to be if you get it right. But he's not talking about broadcasting anymore. This is the ultimate narrow casting. It's the ultimate form. And that's my next point. And the other thing that freaks me out about it and why some of this ultimately may not work is while I don't believe that we're ever going to return to the concept of a monoculture where we're all experiencing the same things as maybe as we have, we have some forms of it in, for example, bears Games right now for Chicago, for maybe for the region, we have a. We have a micro monoculture, but nobody's watching the same TV shows, the same at the same time. The super bowl may be the closest that we get, except for the halftime Goober Festival, where people go away to hear people sing. How hard it is these days to be country. Fascinating stuff. Other than that, we're all divided. We're all in our bubbles. And I think that sports in a lot of ways can go the opposite direction. These are shared experiences. So what I was picturing as I was hearing this say. And do you ever go to a friend's house to watch a game? No. Okay. You do go to a bar, right? You go to a Buffalo Wild Wings, or you'll go somewhere to see a game, especially if you're out of town.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, maybe, but not in the last couple of years, you know. You know the last Super Bowl I went and watched at someone's house.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Was the super bowl that Justin Timberlake. Wasn't Justin Timberlake. Who pulled off with Janet Jackson?

[Dan Bernstein]

Jackson's. Yeah.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, they didn't pull her boobs off, but he pulled her top off. Ow. Would have been better to pull their boobs off. Was that. Was that right? Wasn't it JT and Janet Jackson?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, that was like 2004 or something.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah. That was the last time I went. Deliberately went to someone's house to watch this.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, well.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

And that was actually. I think. I think we were over at Lawrence's place. Unless I'm making that up. But I was with Lawrence. Maybe we were at some strangers, I don't know. But I was definitely with Lawrence. I think it was his house. But that's the last time I went and watched a Super bowl somewhere.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, because I'm thinking you go somewhere to watch a game. Hey, you want to come over? Watch Bulls game? Sure. Well, why are you. Why are you watching the game where the broadcaster has a thick Boston accent and is wearing a clown suit? Well, that's just my choice. On my menu. I. I chose this, this, this, this, this. It's like every time I go over to my parents and they've got the captioning on. Right.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

So, Dan, how do you. How is that going to work? Is that. So you're going to have to have a certain subscription you pay for or a certain TV that has this capability.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

So I just.

[Dan Bernstein]

Man. Or your subscription. It's not. Whatever your subscription service is, however you get your games will have that all built in. And it Will ask you what. Welcome to so and so. Let's set up your viewing choices. And it'll say, I would like this to be. It'd be a pirate accent. Yar standing dribble, top of the key, over to the right. He goes with the ball. It's. You'll have whatever you want. Whatever you want.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You'll.

[Dan Bernstein]

You could have a Michael Caine AI doing the game for you. You could. You could have Ricardo Montalban doing the game for you. It's what. So. But how do you get. If a group of people are there eating nachos, it's like, no, no, switch it to this. No, no, switch it to this. I watch it this way. My personalized thing is this way. We're still going to have to have at some point an agreed upon baseline for the group experience to. The key is share. The key word here is sports as a shared experience. I don't like Joe Buck. I love Joe Buck. You can say what you want about these guys, but at least we all have. We can have conversations about what we like and don't like about how it's presented to us. And when we micro manage every preference. My. The slippery slope is. And I joked about this, but why not just have your own outcome? Why not. Why not be able to watch your team win or lose as you want?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, that's just ridiculous. And. But there's only. There's only one, okay, there's only one way that I would actually participate in this, and it's in baseball. And if I could make every broadcast and there's some great guys doing baseball that I love listening to, but if I could make every game that I watch sound like Vin Scully doing the game, that's the only. That's the only way I would participate in this. Otherwise, I just think it sounds stupid.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sounding like Vin Scully doesn't get you his actual brain.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Right? Which is why I think the whole thing is stupid. That's why the whole thing is dumb. It's dumb. And again, if their point is to drive a new audience or greater audience, it's not going to be successful. It's a. It's really dumb. And the whole idea of I'm going to teach you the game and you can listen it in this, it's ridiculous. I don't know what the answer is. I don't know what the answer is to make basketball more popular. I don't think there is an answer. I just know for me, if the Bulls were a good team, I'd watch more basketball. That's all I know, and I'm not going to talk about the quality of the game today and compare it to 10 or 20 or 30 years ago. That's pointless. It's where it is today. You know, live where your feet are. I'm not going to watch the NBA more often until the Bulls are actually worth watching.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I'm going to say, but don't make it league specific. It'll come for your all of this. If he's saying this about the NBA, that means all the other leagues are just a half a step behind in saying it about their sports, too.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

What I'm.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I'm curious after we release this episode, what, like, the smart people in our audience, what they have to say about this and like, what their thoughts will be to kind of go through it a little, a little bit deeper. I just, I. I don't understand how it's going to work. And until I can actually see how it's going to work, I can't. You know, these are just my initial thoughts on it. And until I can actually see what he's talking about, what it would look like, what it would sound like, I can't really have a good judgment of it. It's just my initial take is it's stupid. It's not going to get more people to watch.

[Dan Bernstein]

See, I don't want to psychoanalyze you, but this is like, I think your anger at this, like your first emotion, if I had to distill, you're just mad about it.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I think it's stupid.

[Dan Bernstein]

You don't like it. You think it's stupid. And I was like that too. And then I started to get more scared. My anger turned into fear because I think, like, sometimes I think they think, oh, this is stupid. It's a part of this is going to happen in some way, but fear, fear of losing the shared experience.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay, see, I think this is, this is interesting because we're two very different people and the way we consume the NBA and our desire to impacts where those feelings outlet.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, then, then just apply it to your sport. Apply it to whatever sport you want.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

No, no, let's talk about NBA because that's Adam Silver saying, you know, this isn't Roger Goodell, but it will be. But it's not yet though, right? That's the state where we're at and we're with the NBA and Adam Silver. And my. It's not really anger. It's just kind of like it's. I'm stupid. It's like I'm looking at it like, this is really dumb. And then for me, the outcome just leads to complacency because I just don't care about the NBA right now because my team is terrible. The team that I would root for is bad for you. It leads to fear because you really like, you love watching the NBA. Like, you really enjoy watching the NBA. And you do have. And you may not be with people physically, but you're watching with people all the time, whether it's your son or your buddies and your text chains, the 37 that you have on different sports, you're consuming it with people, even if you're not together. So. And then, you know, naturally, your first instinct is to worry about anything, which of course that's going to lead to fear. So that's why it kind of deviates that way where me. It's not really anger. It's kind of complacency because I just.

[Dan Bernstein]

Don'T give a shit. Yeah, I do think that when you do confront the reality of this with whatever sport it is that's important to you, the same things are going to apply.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay, okay, fine. Let's take that approach to it. NFL. This is not going to happen with the NFL. It's not. It's not going to happen with the NFL because, dude, it's the most popular sport in this country and it's not even close to. So people are going to be like, oh, yeah, I want to change it to a thick box, a Boston accent. No, that's just not. I mean, people watch the NFL because they love the game itself and they don't need to do those fringe changes to make it more inviting or more enticing. The NBA does right now. It just. Everything is competing and chasing after the NFL in this country.

[Dan Bernstein]

We also have. But when you overlay that, I don't think the leagues themselves are independent of this, of the size and scope of the AI investment. And at the moment, which is why I talk about this as a wave that has yet to crest and recede because it already the amount of AI on comical things. And we saw it here when. When the. In Chicago, the convention for the home appliance show was here at McCormick Place. And with the very first press releases were literally every single home appliance that you could think of, from your air fryer to your stick blender, everything was powered by AI. And of course, a lot of that is ridiculous. This also may be. But we don't know. We're gonna see an effort. They're gonna do everything they can To. Under the guise of. As a lot of technologies in a publicly traded. Under the guise of improve your life, make things easier, which it ultimately will. I do think that there will be diseases cured because of AI. I do. I think there may be if, if, if the 11 or 12 billionaires and multi billionaires in the world decide to be nice instead of mean. I think that there's a lot that, that this can do to make the world a better place, but it's not without trying and failing and forcing it on us in a lot of ways. So we're gonna have to live through some mistakes. And if you're, if you think it's going to be annoying, it, it's going to be. Yeah, it really is. Before it gets better, it's going to get worse and they're going to fire a lot of people and they're going to say, well, this is to, this is just to make everything better. It's better. It's better. It's better. Is it cheaper for you? Maybe. Maybe. It also happens to be a lot.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, you know, I mean, you talk about this, the shared experience and the fear of losing that shared experience and the. Yeah, I mean, there's already AI involved in, in sports at a, At a point where you see the ball placements and how that's, it's, you know, it's not a human eye anymore and like, let's go. So that. Whatever. But the, the human aspect of sports, whether it's the participation or the coverage, that's what makes sports special, is the human element. And you're not going to be able to replace that with AI you're just, you're not going to. There's. I mean, there's nothing like there. There is. There would not. There will never. Like, like a guy like Kevin Harlan. I love hearing Kevin Harlan do a football game and hearing that on the radio. That to me right now is like peak radio football is hearing Kevin Harlan. There's no way you could replace that human element that he brings to a radio broadcast through AI and that's never going to be replaced.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's never going right.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Replaced.

[Dan Bernstein]

All I can say is I, to the bottom of my heart, I hope you're right.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You're just not. I mean, a guy like Greg Olson, who we love hearing in his analysis during a game, you can't replace that. That human element of sports cannot be replaced by AI I hope you're right.

[Dan Bernstein]

I absolutely do. I fear you may not be. When all is said and done.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

No way, dude. There's no absolute way. No way.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, that's, that was, that's why I was kind of, that's why I had to take a two hour walk yesterday because this, this speech Saturday from, from Silver, they're talking about tanking and tanking and tanking. Like yeah, we got, there's, there's bigger things going on than worried about teams trying to lose. If you're really going all in and embracing all this stuff as a, as a media partner.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, and I'm glad you said that again because I thought that a few minutes ago and I wanted to bring that up. There are greater things for Adam Silver and the NBA to worry about their product than AI and what the future of AI is in the NBA or telecast or any sport. Take care of the things within your sport that you can right now, like deal with those things, you know, figure out a way to make concrete improvements to your game that want to attract more, a more significant audience. And again, for me, again, I'm the wrong guy with the NBA. Like when the Bulls are good, I'll watch again. And I'm not going to waste my time watching a team that is 500 or below that gets into this play in tournament and loses every year. I'm not going to waste my time. I'm not going to commit four season. Right you are and that's great.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm going to waste my time and yours.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yes, that's totally fine because that's what you want to do, but I'm just not going to do that and I'm not going to spend, I'm not going to watch 30 games a season of a bum team.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, so let's, we're going to re. We will revisit this when Roger Goodell is parroting a watered down version of everything that Adam Silver just said.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, and if he does, I hope he lays out a little more of a detail than what Adam Silver just said to.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You know, over the weekend, I went 4 and 1 in college games. I know we have picks later on.

[Dan Bernstein]

To do.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

My battle for Ohio.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's right. It's Miami of Ohio against Ohio.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, the Ohio Bobcats. And Miami of Ohio was laying 10.

[Dan Bernstein]

So they're still undefeated.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

They are. They are still undefeated. Yeah. So, yeah, I had a good weekend. Four and one on the college game.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. So Jason's buddy from Miami of Ohio came down for a few days of Mardi Gras and. Oh, nice. And I, I said to my wife, I said, oh, when's. When does he come? And she's like, oh, he left already. So I said, oh, I didn't really hear from any of them when they were down there because. And I was telling Sherman and Tingle when I was on the drive earlier this morning. By the way, Monday and Fridays, I'm on 8:15. They call it Bernstein at 8:15 on 97.1FM the Drive. Chicago's classic rock. And that goes into Queen or Bob Seeger or Bon Jovi or Bonjour or a little bit of Bon Jovi as well. Yeah, All Good stuff. But I was telling them that this is the time of year where I just have to go and find my friends and not ask questions and if.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

It'S probably the right way to go. Oh, by the way.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I can't believe we've never added this guy to our team before.

[Dan Bernstein]

Who?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Marty Gras.

[Dan Bernstein]

Hey, it's Marty.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

How we've never done that before.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

He's a real party.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, we love Careful, careful around Marty.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Marty. Marty Gras is one notch above the Rowdies. Yeah, I also had Wisconsin plus two and a half. They were getting two and a half against Michigan State and they won outright. So. Yeah, that was my. My DBU picks on Friday.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, boy. I mean, Tom Izzo's going through it right now, man. So I make this joke, or I used to make this joke every year. Because as players from other countries are leaving their home countries to come to Florida and Arizona for their respective MLB training camps, there are always some who have a difficult time getting their paperwork in order, and they refer to that as visa problems. And so. And so will be reporting late to camp because of visa problems. And every year, remember, I would make the same joke. Yeah. It's like every month when I get the bill, when I talk visa problems. Geez, what is this? And what is that? And I guess. Oh, boy. I guess I own Cinnamon Boutique and Anthropology in Sephora. Now I could talk about visa problems. Let me tell you something. But now I can't really make the joke anymore because now these things are real. Because our country's so fucked up.

[Adam Silver]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

That the Cubs, Moises Byesteros and Christian Bethan Court, the guy who had maybe one of the best months or three weeks that a catchers had in Cubs history. You forget when he was carrying them last year when every time you turned on a game, Christian Bethan Court was hitting a three run over. Neither one of them is in camp and they're both having the dreaded visa problems. So I'm hopeful everything ends up okay. But. But all bets are off now. I just think it's because it used to be like, ah, yeah, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Nothing's fine anymore. You can't count on competence.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

No, you can't.

[Dan Bernstein]

You can't count on two things. You cannot count on good faith in, you know, trying to make people's lives better and easier. Cause it's probably gonna be some sort of extortion for a payout. Oh, yeah, your visa problems are gonna clear up as soon as you give us a little bit of money. Because it's just unbelievable how we've had this sort of kleptocracy take over everything. So, I don't know.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Just give me a million dollars and your visa issues go away.

[Dan Bernstein]

Exactly. I'm hopeful that Betancourt and Ballesteros make it to Cubs. Make it to camp.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah. No, dude, I have a lot of friends in the corporate world still that have. They're part of international companies that are telling their international employees. Don't you just don't. Don't bother coming to the United States. Like, if there are events or things they would normally fly in for, just don't do it.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's everywhere.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Don't. Don't risk whatever the benefit might be of being at a sales kickoff or a corporate meeting. Just skip it for now.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I'm not surprised. It's crazy. I'm not surprised. So go ahead.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I'm sorry. I texted Tannehill and I told him how have we never had Mardi Gras on the show before?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Like how we missed it for years. And he said a formal apology is needed. So I'm like, well, I agree. So give it to me.

[Dan Bernstein]

We never had Mardi Gras.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

How we never had Mardi Gras.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. Maybe he's just been too drunk. Well, maybe. And these. Boy, these. These last couple days, too. Are they there? They party. They don't sleep between now and they stay out all night.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Your kid again?

[Dan Bernstein]

Until the sunrise. That. The letter that comes every year? Have I told you about this letter? It's. It's hilarious what Tulane sends out every year.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

The letter to parents before Mardi Gras. So they know they're. They. They know their.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Is that. Is Mardi Gras a big party time down there?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Big party time in Newark. They. You talk about knowing your clients.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay. Oh, my God. What's this letter?

[Dan Bernstein]

I. I should. I should read it. But it basically says. The letter basically says this. Jefferson Parish jail is no fun. There are certain rules to Mardi Gras. There's certain behaviors that will land you if you. That will land you in Jefferson Parish jail. We don't care who you are. We don't care who your kid is. We don't care how much money you've given this university. We don't care if you graduated from this university. We don't care. We don't care how distinguished a lawyer you may be.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Like, you could be a legacy family.

[Dan Bernstein]

We. We. We don't care if you're the president of another country. Your kid is not getting out of that jail. Don't call us and say, do you know who I am? That's basically what the letter says.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Sign Jim Rose.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's essentially the letter from the president of the university says, you're not important enough. Even if you think you are, you're not. If your kid. If your kid's in that jail or something bad happens and your kid does something stupid, we're not helping you. Then. And then they say, tell your kid, do not get. And they send the same thing to students and they just delete it. But it says, do not get in the back of a U Haul for transportation. You're not a piece of furniture.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Like a U Haul truck.

[Dan Bernstein]

A trailer. Not a truck. A trailer.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, boy. Or. Or an actual truck where there's a cab with a cab on it. And they say, do not get in the back of an open pickup. And then after last year, I asked, so how. Just out of curiosity, when you have that wristband and you're on campus, and then they say, oh, we're going to Bourbon street for this parade or that parade, or going to this, and we're going to be up top on the balcony throwing beads. How do you get there? He's like, oh, they shove us all in the back of a U Haul.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, Jesus.

[Dan Bernstein]

They're trafficked. You basically pay money to. To be. To be human trafficked to and from the parties.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You know, they have, like, party buses.

[Dan Bernstein]

There's not enough room. You can't. You can't fit buses in these. In these tiny little streets. You can't. You might be able to get a party bus within.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, can't you get it close enough?

[Dan Bernstein]

You can park, like, the convention center somehow, but I'm just telling you. So it's a. I just don't want to know. I don't want to know. I know it all ends at sunrise on Wednesday, where they stay up all night.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, this is his second Mardi Gras down there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Second.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay. How'd the first one go? Or do you not know details?

[Dan Bernstein]

It went fine. I do have pictures. He didn't send a single picture this year or hasn't yet.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Last year he did, and I did ask questions, and I think this year I don't even want to know. Okay, Just be. Don't be an idiot. Don't get in trouble. Do not go. Please do not make somebody try to.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Bail you out of.

[Dan Bernstein]

Don't be more of an idiot. Yes. Parish jail. Because the university said, don't bother. Don't bother saying that your kid can't be in jail.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I'd like to say that any jail, Any prison situation, not good. I'm sure the Jefferson county one is probably bad, but I don't think you ever want to be in jail ever.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, I think in general, jail's no fun.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

It's a bad. I would try to avoid jail as much as possible.

[Dan Bernstein]

I have one of the hockey parents from years ago is a criminal court judge, and he said he would find himself saying that to defendants. Often. It's like, you know, if you do this again, you're going to jail.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You don't want to be in jail.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, you've been right.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Jail's not fun, is it? No, it's not known for being fun. Oh, and before our Olympic update, I just want to mention.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

That we. That I don't. I haven't been able to track down Russ Armstrong because I think he's so consumed with the curling beef that's going on. I don't know. You've been following with the Canadian team and the Swedish team. What's happening with. With. With. With touching the rock past hog cheating.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

And then they were mouthing off at each.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. And then they went back in video, and they've all been cheating, and they're. They're all. They're all touching the stone after it passes the hog line.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I saw. I saw a video over the weekend from, like, 1970, whatever it was, Olympics and some. I can't remember what country they were in, but the dude that pushes the stone that, like, slides along the ice.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Got a full heater in his mouth, burning away.

[Dan Bernstein]

They all do. Yeah. They used to smoke all the time.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

It was great.

[Dan Bernstein]

But I'm telling you, this. This guy, Mark Kennedy of Canada, who is not doing the best job convincing people that he hasn't been cheating because the stuff he's been saying. Yeah. Well, you know, maybe I don't know if I do it or not. Maybe I do it. Maybe I'd have to rethink the way we release everything. I don't know. I don't know if I touch it again. I don't know. I haven't really looked in the moment whether I do it or not. It's like, okay, you just admitted you do it. You know you do it. Come on, man. Like, I thought, you know, Canadians are supposed to be a little. Little more diplomatic at some of these things, but apparently not. It's in, you know, because Russ is big in the, in the curling world. He should be the commissioner of curling, I think. And he's all, you know what else he's great at outside of that? Windows. He's really, really good at making windows. Custom making great windows for your home and then giving you the best deal. That's actually how you know he pays his mortgage is for the window, not from the curling. But you got to get to know Russ if you need windows because he comes out to your house, he will tell you all the things you need to know and most importantly, he'll give you peace of mind because you're going to hear all these window companies talk about buy one get one free or talk about two for one or buy one, get one 50% off. And they're all gimmicks. Do not fall for the sales gimmicks. Don't fall for the sales gimmicks. Have Russ come to your house and explain why he's going to give you the best windows at the best price. 8473-029171-84730-9171. Check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNow,DowGuys.com his factory's here in Chicago. He's here in Chicago. Everything's made here. And it's his people that do the installation, that do the measuring. He knows all the, all the crews that are going to be working. Anybody in and around your house works for Russ. It's not subcontracted third party labor. So when you ask and have you're getting quotes. Ask these other companies who's installing my windows. They won't know. So Russ's people will make sure your windows are installed correctly the first time. Call him 847-302-9171 and check out his five star reviews at Chicago window guys. And that brings us to a 312 Sports Olympic update. Here's Madame Atticola.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All right, so a lot happened over the weekend. Here's a few highlights for you to keep track of in case you're not women's hockey.

[Dan Bernstein]

Dan.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

They beat Italy six to nothing, which was devastating and exciting at the same time. Men had a couple of games over the weekend. They beat Denmark 6 to 3, defeated Germany 5 to 1. Pretty easy games apparently. I mean, we're getting towards a gold medal match between Canada and the US in both women's and men's. We had another gold medal and Olympic record from Jordan Stoles the speed skater 500 meter men's final. He won that one. Men's figure skating on Saturday night.

[Dan Bernstein]

Wait, hold on. Don't you want to talk about Femka Cock for women's figure skating?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, is that the 42 year old?

[Dan Bernstein]

No, we were all cheering for cock. She, she, she bested the field. They had. We. There were two Dutch that finished first and second. I was watching last night and my wife was very mad at me to the extent that I was cheering for cock.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That's the speed skater, right?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, yes.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Femke cock.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Okay, Femke cock. The men's figures jumping up and down, rooting for cock. Go ahead. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That's all right. Ilya Malinin, the. The quad God, bad. Yeah. So I don't know if you watched any of the men's final on Saturday night. I watched everybody. Everybody fell.

[Dan Bernstein]

Seriously, what are you doing? Everybody fell and then they're like, well, because the quad got. And they were blaming him for other people falling. That's what was hilarious.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

In the last. Or last.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, well, see, they're saying, well, all because of the quad God. Now everyone has to be at the, at the furthest level of their ability, pushing the envelope all the time with these quads to match the great Ilya Malinin. And that's why everybody's falling.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

And then he fell a couple times and I think he finished eighth place. I'm not that. That was the final, the final number, but that didn't, didn't look good.

[Dan Bernstein]

And he was awesome afterward, by the way. That dude.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, yeah, he was great.

[Dan Bernstein]

On the worst day of his life. Stood in front of everybody and that.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Immediate interview, actually, with NBC reporter. But once he, once the, his numbers came out and they, the kid from Kazakhstan won, I think is. I don't know if I have this correctly, but made the second gold ever for Kazakhstan or the second medal ever for Kazakhstan.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, he, they didn't even do any analysis. Basically, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir had him on in the background and they said, they even said something about him. Well, he's maybe the next Olympics or something. And he. This is just sort of laying the groundwork for what he can be the next Olympics. And they were talking about other things and then it's over. Like, you know, that was, that wasn't bad.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, it wasn't bad at all. And then everyone after him just keeps falling and they're like, he's still there in the chair. He still has the lead. Oh, this guy fell. He's still there in the chair. He still has the lead. And it wasn't even until after it was done. They were like, oh, my God, could. Could he possibly win? Well, no, he did win. He.

[Dan Bernstein]

Win. Yes.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

We have a hockey game today. Women and the US women take on Sweden. And that's like 9:40 our time. Then we have a medal count for you here. Norway still in the lead at 27. Italy Sky Point 22. US and Japan are tied for third at 17 each. That's the metal count. I know you had a couple notes on.

[Dan Bernstein]

I did have a couple other notes. And the. There's been a lot of talk about the noise of the drone cameras. The camera work's been magnificent and some of the drones are capturing stuff we've never seen before. But you really want something where if something, if artificial intelligence can find some way to create a silent drone. You can't tell me that the drones that, like Ukraine is using to send the hellfire missiles that deep into Russian territory are making that same high pitched wine. You know, it is really bothersome to have that background noise because. Because the sounds of the Winter Olympics just in the background are fabulous. Skating hockey sound is already awesome. Skiing sound like. It's great. Natural sound. Way better than the Summer Games. The Summer Games. It's all those hellacious swim meets where it's loud and echoey and everybody screaming. There's just something soothing about the sounds of the Winter Olympics. Even when you're not looking or you're just doing other things, or it's just on. And to have that drone reminds me of when we had the vuvuzelas for that one World Cup. That's right.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Those are annoying.

[Dan Bernstein]

It just kind of ruined everything. So I would like for them to figure that out with some sort of this great technology. Here's the other observation. What does it say about the star power of Lindsey Vaughn? That the stories about her having medical procedures and when she's going to be there and when she's going to come home are higher up on lists on these websites than actual stories about actual Olympians winning medals.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, yeah, I mean, the Lindsey Vaughn story far outweighed the Breezy Johnson gold medal win.

[Dan Bernstein]

But even beyond that.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

We talked about that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, but even beyond that, now it's like there's a picture of her in a hospital bed, you know, with that. With that sort of mane of blonde hair. And she looks like Lady Godiva. And they said that she's had these procedures and soon she will be headed home.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, it was weird. She had children at her feet, too. In the bed.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, that's Lady Madonna.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, that's right. Oh, A lot of chocolate. She had chocolate.

[Dan Bernstein]

You want to hear? Great. Ms. Here about that song, by the way. Yeah. My friend Paul, for years, when he was a kid, he didn't understand the idiom Lady Madonna, Children at your feet Wonder how you manage to make ends meet. He thought when he was a kid that the idiom, whatever it meant, was to make ends meet. He thought it was like a roast.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, an ends meet?

[Dan Bernstein]

No, like M E a T. Oh, M's meet ends. How do you make the ends meet? M E a T like the. Like these little crispy little ends. Like, he thought that he was he. For years, he thought the idiom, the ability to make ends meet was the ability to take the inedible portions of something and actually turn it into meat that you could feed your many children.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Or it was a recipe from her friend Ems and she just couldn't master it.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know, I just. I thought it was very. Because it made sense. It wasn't completely nonsensical to presume that it. Because it meant the same thing. How do you do more with less? How do you. How do you make your budgeting work? But it was the idea of ends being M E a T. But that's not important right now.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

There was one. I always got messed. I always thought, is it Africa or Toto? Who did the.

[Dan Bernstein]

The.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I bought a train down in Africa. That's what I always thought. They said they bought trains down in Africa and I always wondered why the trains were better in Africa.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, yeah. The lyrics of that are very strange and I don't really understand it.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All right, so, Lindsay Vaughn. Yeah. So you don't understand why she's a pop.

[Dan Bernstein]

So, Lindsey Vaughn. No, I do understand it. Just to me, it was a. She must do clicks at an unbelievable rate to incentivize all of these stories about her. She had a surgery. She's recovering. Look, her career's over. She. She came back and she was good and she tore acl and then she fell down and she broke her leg in six places and her career is over and there's people winning medals and winning. But. And yet it's still. It's still news that she's still in the hospital, even though we know that she's going to be fine and she's going to be a famous broadcaster and do whatever she wants and be a model and an influencer and all that stuff. But it. But it's just. It's the. It's still the story that's bigger than people. You haven't heard of who are actually winning medals which is the reason why people then become heard of. I don't know. Maybe I'm just in my head. That has been your 312 sports Olympic update.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All right. I have a couple, I have a couple notes. Can I share some notes with you from over the weekend? Not sure what things you caught you've you've picked up on over the weekend. First of all, I want to go back to Super Bowl 60 real quick because we spent a lot of time talking about the amazing incredible halftime show from Bad Bunny.

[Dan Bernstein]

Not Brad Bunny, but Bad Bunny.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

We never mentioned at all last week the national anthem by Charlie Puth and America the Beautiful by Brandy Carlisle. I don't know if you heard either one is I know you. You don't check in. Both were absolutely outstanding. It was just so from a musical standpoint from start to finish one of the best Super Bowls from a musical standpoint. And the song selections are not the songs but the artist selections were just great. Charlie, I would go back and listen to the Charlie Puth national anthem for I'm talking to you individual you personally you would do that. And I forget for many forgetting to mention that all week last week a couple other baseball notes. Did you see that Major League Baseball is going to remove like the strike zone box from their broadcasts?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well that is because there's going to be the challenge system this year.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Right. And they don't want that to influence have that opportunity there on TV to see and then have teams to use that. Which I get it, I understand it. But I think fans are gonna be ticked off about that as well too. I like seeing that. I like when they have that on there. And so then I get all upset. I got a guy who misses a call. Other baseball note you saw Arizona Diamondbacks a one year deal with Zach Gallen. He decides to bet on himself and maybe get a bigger contract after next season. Who knows play. And then a couple college things that I saw were really interesting. Baylor hit the team Baylor baseball team for University of Baylor hit three grand slams in one game. Did you see that over the weekend?

[Dan Bernstein]

I did.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

And then Oklahoma women's softball, they hit my notes here. Two grand slams in one inning on route to a 34 to nothing win over Texas El Paso.

[Dan Bernstein]

My guess with both of those happening around the same time, my guess is we are in the the old non conference portion of the season.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I would think so.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because you know what this sounds like to me? This I've this sounds like anybody who has been around youth baseball. Sounds like being on the wrong end of one of those tournaments.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yes, 100%. We've been there and done that.

[Dan Bernstein]

We've all been there.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All right. And one last note that I have about Super Bowl 61. I don't know if you, if you've seen the calendar, have heard this at all.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's Valentine's Day.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Valentine's Day, Yes. And what is the next day?

[Dan Bernstein]

What is the next day?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

So it'd be February 15th. Monday.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

President's Day.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. Which is already off. Are off. So we're getting close to the goal that many of us have had of making the Monday or doing it honestly, Saturday, or making the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, they, they get it. We all get it. By, by just coincidence. Next year with the calendar. So having the latest Super Bowl. February 14th.

[Dan Bernstein]

Good.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

And then February 15th, President's Day, everyone's off on Monday. Well, a lot of people are off on Monday.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, that's fine for me.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

We'll still be working.

[Dan Bernstein]

I got a Valentine's Day present.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

We'll be doing our follow up show in la. From who?

[Dan Bernstein]

From Beth. I got a, I got a Valentine's Day present from my own wife.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, really?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That was sweet. What did she give you?

[Dan Bernstein]

She got me these awesome slippers made by Bombas, the socks.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, yeah, Bombas are a great. Yeah, that's a good, good sock company.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Buy one, they donate one too.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, well, which kind of means you're, you're paying for two. They donate one. Correct.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Because they're like individual pair of socks are 37.

[Dan Bernstein]

Correct. So it's, they're donating one that you're, you're donating one, but they get the tax benefit of it.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, it's a good move.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's why it always bothers me when these things that say, would you like to donate $10 to such and such. Well, no, if I want to donate it, I'll donate it because otherwise why would I give you the tax benefit?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Why?

[Dan Bernstein]

You want me to give you money so you can write it off? Like, come on, man, that's, that's, that's, that's not how it works.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All right, back to the slippers.

[Dan Bernstein]

So they're awesome. And she wanted to throw out my other ones and she did throw out my other ones. I'm kind of pissed about it because I liked the other ones also. And she's like, well, no, well, these are your slippers. I am your slippers now.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

But you know what? I got A problem with that? She has no right to throw away your slippers.

[Dan Bernstein]

She didn't like the other slippers. So I.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Buying you a new pair doesn't trump the idea of. Those are still your slippers.

[Dan Bernstein]

She bought herself a present is what happened.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

These are wearing them now.

[Dan Bernstein]

They're just. These are a little quieter and apparently they smell better.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, okay. So I have my slippers on right now.

[Dan Bernstein]

Really? Yeah. These are my.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

My basement slippers.

[Dan Bernstein]

Let me see. Okay. Yeah. I've never seen that movie, but I understand. Okay. Yeah.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You've never seen Christmas Vacation?

[Dan Bernstein]

Nope, I've not. I haven't seen A Christmas Story either.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

That's fine. I don't. I don't mind if you. I mean, you should see it once, but that's fine.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

God damn it, Dan.

[Dan Bernstein]

What did I do now? I just haven't seen it.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Like Mrs. Doubtfire, I thought was the thing that would break this relationship. Now I'm wondering if. You know what? When you start forward progress, if there's a blank screen, you.

[Dan Bernstein]

You've left you.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You know why?

[Dan Bernstein]

You're. You're walking into the pond outside your house, and that's it.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Debate it right now. I could. Because it's frozen.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, but it only go up to, like, your waist.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

I mean, you just kind of. I think the center of that pond is like 250ft. There's, like sea monsters down there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Glacial lake.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, we have. We have children that disappear in this neighborhood. They think it's the sea monster.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All right, I have two college games to look at for tonight. I'm going to take. So Syracuse is at Duke, and while I believe Duke is going to roll over Syracuse, they're going to motorboat him. Syracuse is getting 20, and it's very possible that they could. They could cover that 20, but I'm going to take Syracuse and the points tonight. So Syracuse plus 20 and the best game of the night. And there isn't a whole bunch, but the best game of the night is Iowa State is hosting Houston in a top 10 matchup. So Houston at Iowa State. I'm going to lay the two and a half for Iowa State. So Iowa State minus two and a half. Syracuse at Duke plus 20. The Iowa Houston game is going to be a great one. I just think that environment of Houston going into Iowa, I think, yeah, I'll. I'll lay the two and a half with Iowa, take the 20 with Syracuse.

[Dan Bernstein]

If you're going to watch it, do me a favor. I want you to scout that Houston defense for me, particularly as they match up against Illinois. I'm just very interested to see what you think about their length, quickness, athleticism, and strategy before, because that. That could be a national championship ship.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Will do.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, well, that will do it then, as.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

What about your picks?

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, I got to do my pick. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go with the futures pick. Nobody cares about my picks.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, that's not true. I care. I write them down every time.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm gonna go with the futures pick. I saw that. I can get the San Antonio spurs at 15 to 1.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Oh, nice.

[Dan Bernstein]

To win the national championship. So I'm. I'm gonna do that.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

You mean the NBA championship?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, the NBA champion. That's a national champion. The NBA championship.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Okay, that's a good number. 15 to 1.

[Dan Bernstein]

15. 1. I thought so.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good deal.

[Dan Bernstein]

I thought so, too, because it's hard to tell who's where on the accelerator right now. What's gonna. If you play WEMBY, you know, 40 minutes a game in the playoffs, you can. You can win every game. So I'm. I'm. I think that that's worth a little flyer there. Fifteen to one on the Spurs. So I think I'm going to grab that as my DBU pick. Lock in your picks now with my bookie Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

A couple things I forgot to mention too. When we were talking NBA stuff with Adam Silver. I know you weren't partaking of any of the NBA All Star weekend, so I said I would do that. And I watched a little bit of everything. And I watched them some celebrity basketball game on Friday night which was terrible. Our guy, C Dub, Caleb Williams finished last in the celebrity three point contest. He fought, he lost some guy who. I can't remember who it was, but there's an actual NBA player that won the celebrity three point contest. How is that.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's not the celebrity one.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yeah, that's what I thought I read.

[Dan Bernstein]

So was it femke cock?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

No, it was not.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

It was not. And then I watched a little bit of the dunk contest, which was terrible until a kid hit his head and he fell and he went boom. And then the, the All Star Games yesterday. So this round robin thing with the three teams, you got two USA teams, one world team. I watched the game, complete quarter of a game that whatever they play where Kawhi Leonard scored like 30 of the 48 points. It was, it was, it was great that watching him do that was. Was really awesome.

[Dan Bernstein]

He's having a year.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

It was really back. Yeah, that was a lot of fun to watch that. And then outside of that, yeah, I was good. If you missed it, it seemed like a lot of people missed it too because the whole stadium was pretty much empty. It just wasn't, wasn't good stuff. And then during your. The last segment we had there, but you mentioned another guy that we've never had on our team. So not only have we need. We need to add Marty Gras, but the name and the guy who's our, like a new sound guy. Miles Tone. Never had Miles Tone either.

[Dan Bernstein]

Miles Tone. Okay. He's on the board. He'll be with Mardi Gras, Marty Gras and Miles Tone. Okay, good. I. This roster is enormous. We might have to have a cut down at some point.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Well, we're. We're going to make multiple teams have.

[Dan Bernstein]

To field multiple teams just like the.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

All Star game did. Well, we'll do like, we'll do like youth basketball or baseball. You have an a B and a.

[Dan Bernstein]

C. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just. Yeah, we need like a, you know, a blue and orange and a white right?

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

Yes. We've got our.

[Dan Bernstein]

We have our colors.

[Co-host (likely a sports commentator or analyst)]

So good to go.

[Dan Bernstein]

There you go. It'll be like the New Trier hockey team. It's perfect. And that is Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered for this Monday, brought to you in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 3, 1, 2 Sports.

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